Dr.NephBHM_UK said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
roxy_nash said:Agreed on the target, with the caveat that reference weight and current weight are different numbers.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
Dr.NephBHM_UK said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
I read this differently from Dr.NephBHM_UK, on substance rather than tone. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
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Shop Reference StandardsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.